Of the ten people from the War God Temple, apart from Ma Liang who had left by himself four days ago, only the three of them remained in the past three days. Zhou Zihong let out a bitter sigh and hurriedly glanced back at the strange creature that was getting closer and closer. She closed her eyes in despair, and Ma Liang's figure involuntarily appeared in her mind.
That Ma Liang had always been as timid as a mouse and was afraid of death. However, he was also extremely thick-skinned and didn't care whether he was beaten or scolded. Junior Sister Tong couldn't stand being pestered by him, so she thought of a way to bring him to the foreign battleground. If I hadn't pitied him and saved him many times, he would have died long ago. This Ma Liang does have a conscience. A few days ago, he gave me a pill and said that eating it would help me retain my youth. I wonder if it's true … "
With despair, Zhou Zihong couldn't help but let her imagination run wild. At this moment, she suddenly heard senior brother Yang yell anxiously, "Ma Liang!
Run! "
Zhou Zihong was startled. She opened her eyes and saw a young man flying towards them. The young man had a handsome face, but there was a hint of coldness hidden in his eyes. There was a bloodstain on his chest.
"Junior brother Ma, we won't be able to escape this time."
Senior brother Yang sighed. He looked to be in his thirties and had a melancholic expression on his face.
Wang Lin glanced at the three of them but didn't say anything. At this moment, the dozen or so wandering souls suddenly stopped and stared at Wang Lin with hesitation.
Wang Lin let out a light snort and sent out a fluctuation with his divine sense.
"Scram!"
The dozen or so wandering souls immediately retreated in panic and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Zhou Zihong stared dumbfoundedly at the scene before her. She couldn't guess why those terrifying creatures would suddenly leave. She suddenly turned around and looked at Wang Lin. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Could it be that those terrifying creatures were afraid of Mai Liang?
But immediately after, she denied this guess.
The other two disciples of the Combat God Hall were confused as well, but regardless, the feeling of surviving a calamity rose in their hearts, causing them to let out sighs of relief.
Senior Martial Brother Yang was the most senior among them. He looked around with lingering fear and said, "Junior Martial Sister, I don't know why those creatures didn't attack us, but we can't stay here for long. We should hurry to the teleportation array and leave this place as soon as possible."
Zhou Zihong shivered and quickly nodded. She said to Ma Liang, "Junior Brother Ma, your cultivation is the lowest, so you must follow us closely. Don't let those creatures jump on you, or else your soul will immediately dissipate."
At this moment, the other War God Temple disciple impatiently said, "What are you still blabbering about? If you guys aren't leaving, then I'll be leaving first."
With that, his body moved and he quickly rushed out.
Through Ma Liang's memories, Wang Lin knew that this person was called Lin Tao.
Senior Brother Yang also hurriedly followed, unwilling to stay in the same place. Zhou Zihong glanced at Wang Lin and said in a low voice:
"Be careful." With that, she leaped into the air and flew forward.
Wang Lin still didn't have a chance to speak. He raised his foot and calmly followed behind. The reason he saved the three of them, aside from his own plans, was because Ma Liang was very grateful to Zhou Zihong. Wang Lin felt that since he had taken Ma Liang's body, he should help him do some things.
Zhou Zihong and company were extremely cautious as they flew. They were even very careful when taking out pills to replenish spirit energy from their bags of holding.
Zhou Zihong took out an extra pill and handed it to Wang Lin. Wang Lin looked at the pill in his hand and couldn't help but think of his heaven defying bead. The liquid that was soaked in the bead was the best recovery pill.
Unfortunately, the bag of holding that contained the gourd and all the other treasures was crushed by Teng Huayuan and turned into nothingness.
Wang Lin let out a sigh. He could feel the existence of the bead in his divine sense, and he could even feel the blood refining sword fusing with his soul. However, right now was not the time to investigate. Wang Lin pondered a bit. He was even more certain that once he left the foreign battleground, he would find a place to go into closed door cultivation.
The cultivators in the foreign battleground noticed that the signs of collapse seemed to have slowed down a bit, but this was of no use to them. Compared to the collapse, the strange creatures were even more terrifying.
The area collapsed. Visually, it looked as if people had suddenly disappeared. However, the devouring of those creatures made people watch helplessly as their souls were devoured. Screams sounded again and again, and then their bodies turned into dried corpses.
If these cultivators were given the choice of how to die, almost all of them would choose to collapse rather than be burned alive.
There were a total of four large transfer arrays in the foreign battleground. Wang Lin and company were flying toward the closest one. Wang Lin didn't have a fixed choice for one of the four transfer arrays. For him, it didn't matter which transfer array he went to. These transfer arrays could only transfer people with the right jade.
Anyone who entered the foreign battleground would be given a jade. Aside from being able to resist the wind, the most important function of the jade was to be used as a token to transfer back to Zhao.
Wang Lin didn't have a token from Zhao, so he couldn't use the transfer array to return to Zhao. Since he had taken over Mai Liang's body, the best choice for him was Hou Fen, where Mai Liang was.
This was another reason why he saved Zhou Zihong and company. He wanted to steal a jade.
Of course, if he could find Xu Hao and Ge Yang, that would be even better.
These two people were already on Wang Lin's list of people he must kill. He didn't kill them for Mai Liang, but because they knew that the real Mai Liang was already dead. In order to not leave any loose ends, the two of them had to die.
Along the way, Wang Lin used Mai Liang's memories to contact his three neighbors and asked them to help him search for all the wandering souls in the foreign battleground. Wei was Wang Lin's eyes and ears. Once there was news of the two of them, his three neighbors would immediately notify him.
If there was still no news of the two of them, then it could only mean that Xu Hao and Ge Yang were already dead.
After flying for a week, what confused Zhou Zihong and company was that it was as if the strange creatures couldn't see them and completely ignored them.
There were even some that were charging at them, but they immediately turned around and went around them.
So along the way, the three of them were more scared than hurt. In the end, they even got used to this kind of experience countless times a day. Whenever they saw a strange creature, they wouldn't immediately stop and change directions like before. Instead, they would just slow down and wait for the creature to leave before increasing their speed.
There was an even more bizarre time when a creature suddenly appeared and pounced towards Zhou Zihong. However, the moment it touched Zhou Zihong, it seemed to have seen an unimaginable horror. It screamed and quickly retreated, fleeing in panic without regard for anything else.
The three of them weren't idiots. Such a strange thing would naturally arouse their suspicions. After thinking about it for a bit, they immediately realized that the answer was because of Wang Lin.
However, aside from Zhou Zihong, who wanted to ask something but didn't in the end, the other two pretended like they didn't see anything.
It wasn't that they didn't want to ask, but that they couldn't. If they offended Wang Lin with a single question, they might lose their lives here.
The disciple called Lin Tao had his back to Wang Lin. His eyes were flickering, and it was unknown what he was thinking. However, his expression quickly returned to normal, and no one could tell what he was thinking.
Seeing that they were just a short distance away from the nearest transfer array, the number of cultivators nearby increased. Everyone's target was the transfer array in front of them.
Wang Lin had already used his divine sense to scan the area. There were a few people gathered outside the transfer array, waiting for it to open.
A white barrier of light covered the teleportation formation to protect it. Outside the teleportation formation floated a large number of desiccated corpses. They were all cultivators who wanted to enter the teleportation formation. Occasionally, wandering souls would appear and drill through the corpses.
The transfer array in the foreign battleground was usually closed, and it would only open at a fixed time. There were still two days until it opened.
These people inside the transfer array nervously looked outside. Whenever there was the slightest movement, they would be alarmed. However, gradually, some people realized that the wandering souls were only wandering outside, and definitely wouldn't touch the light barrier of the transfer array.
Gradually, people noticed this phenomenon, and the people inside the transfer array let out a sigh of relief.
As they were flying, Wang Lin's expression suddenly changed. His neighbor sent a message to him, saying that the two people he was looking for were already dead, and their storage bags were being delivered by the wandering souls.
Not long after, an illusory wandering soul with two horns on its head quickly flew over. At first, Zhou Zihong and the other two didn't pay much attention to it, but when they saw it getting closer and closer, they couldn't help but look at Wang Lin.
At this moment, the wandering soul stopped in front of the three of them and threw three storage bags at Wang Lin. Wang Lin immediately grabbed them.
After doing all this, the wandering soul immediately turned around and flew away.
Wang Lin's eyes flickered. He stared at the wandering soul and suddenly said:
"Stop!"
The wandering soul paused and turned to look at Wang Lin, trembling.
Wang Lin didn't even look at Zhou Zihong and the other two. His body moved forward, and he lightly floated in front of the wandering soul.
Wang Lin had devoured at least eight to ten thousand wandering souls. He hadn't counted the exact number himself, but he could tell at a glance that there was something wrong with the wandering soul in front of him.
The wandering souls that Wang Lin devoured before were actually more like life forms that existed in the state of consciousness. They had a certain level of intelligence, but their natural instinct was to devour everything.
But the wandering soul in front of him was clearly different. Its body was extremely heterogeneous. After it devoured so many souls, it didn't seem to be digested, and there were deep traces left in its body.
After these traces accumulated to a certain extent, the wandering soul's body was completely changed. Wang Lin's eyes flickered. He carefully looked for a long time. From this wandering soul, he actually felt a trace of the feeling he got when he saw Situ Nan's Nascent Soul in the dream space.
Or it could be said that there was a similarity between the two.
"Go kill him!" Wang Lin pointed at Lin Tao with his right hand and ordered.
(To be continued)